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[zenmaster]

I feel like the government acknowledging that something unexplained is happening will create a more accepting environment for people who have had UFO/abduction experiences to come forward and speak about it.

Yes, many people tend to look towards authority figures to validate their beliefs. The acknowledgement would also beg the question from the people of just what is known to prompt the declaration. They would not accept 'something unexplained' as a sufficient answer for this type of phenomenon, or any other with the world-view changing implications it carries. Merely acknowledging it is sufficient justification for accountability. This puts the govt in a surrogate role of answering demanding questions of meaning and purpose. The answers can not be satisfactory, because the nature of the problem is philosophical or 'existential', not nuts and bolts or scientific.